Nuts Quotes:

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

- Aaron Eckhart

topic: Nuts, Procedures, Witness, Nuts And Bolts, Bolts

I am not a madman or a nut.

- Abdul Qadeer Khan

topic: Nuts, Madmen

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

- Adam Carolla

topic: Nuts, Car, Guy, Nuts And Bolts

I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Jesus, Nuts, May

I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.

- Ai Yazawa

topic: Attitude, Fall, Nuts, Slowing

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Nuts, Wife, Imagine

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

- Al McGuire

topic: Money, Nuts, Differences, I Haven't Changed

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Winning, Nuts

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Winning, Nuts

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Thinking, Nuts, People, Smarties

What do you do when you see a man masturbating at a salad baran actual salad shooterbut wait, I'm single, we're both at the salad bar, we have a lot in common. I like fresh produce, he likes to get fresh with produce. I like nuts on my salad, he likes to nut on his salad.

- Alison Rosen

topic: Men, Nuts, Waiting

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Believe, Nuts, Want

I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.

- Amy Smart

topic: Crazy, Character, Nuts, High Energy

Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.

- Andrea McLean

topic: Eye, Nuts, Peppers, Hazelnuts

The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.

- Annabella Sciorra

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nuts, Giving, Fans, Crowded, Crowded Places

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Nuts, Dry, Treasure, Kernel

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

- Anne Lamott

topic: Nuts, Tribes, Reason

I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

- Art Donovan

topic: Marine, July, Nuts, Colts, Wwii

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Kids, Nuts, Practice, Good Place

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Winning, Nuts, America, Best Dressed

Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang Drugs slang in the drug game with the hustling (I know one thing) Anything is better than that 1 train

- ASAP Rocky

topic: Gun, Boys, Nuts, Lamborghini, Mustang

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

- Bess Truman

topic: Nuts, Half, Ghost

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

- Bill Murray

topic: Nuts, Insanity

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Suicide, Jumping, Nuts, Jumping Off, Jumping Off A Bridge

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

- Bob Saget

topic: Dirty, Tv Shows, Nuts

When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!

- Bobby Flay

topic: Nuts, People, Burgers

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Stupid, Nuts, Eccentric

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

- Brenda Lee

topic: Girl, Redneck, Nuts

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Fitness, Running, Nuts

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

- Brion Gysin

source: Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.174, The Overlook Press

topic: Nuts, Doe, Cracks

Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

- Brion Gysin

source: Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.174, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Running, Nuts, Feet, Conundrums

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

- Brock Yates

source: Brock Yates (2003). “Cannonball!”, p.13, MotorBooks International

topic: Law, Nuts, Style

Love your enemies and drive them nuts.

- Brother Dave Gardner

topic: Love You, Nuts, Enemy

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

- Budd Schulberg

source: "Fictional character: Terry Malloy". "On the Waterfront", www.imdb.com. 1954.

topic: Nuts, Stuff, Conscience, The Waterfront

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

- Caitlin Moran

source: "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

topic: Men, Nuts, Feminist, Hahaha

If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

- Camryn Manheim

topic: Believe, Nuts, Fudge

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

- Carter Burwell

topic: Thinking, Nuts, Littles

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

- Cesar Romero

topic: Father, Nuts, Gone, Exporting, Bolts

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

- Charles Saatchi

source: Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

topic: Jobs, Artist, Nuts, Eccentricity, Self Absorbed

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Thinking, White, Nuts, Alligators

I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

- Chris Farley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Nuts, Trying, Pounds, Monica, Santa Monica

My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.

- Chris Pine

topic: Nuts, Fans, Bunch, Pine Nuts, Nutty

My shoots are very much about skin, so I'm an exfoliating and moisturizing nut. I fly so much, so I take my makeup off as soon as I get on the airplane. I look at my watch every half hour and moisturize.

- Chrissy Teigen

topic: Airplane, Makeup, Nuts

While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

- Christie Rampone

topic: Cereal, Snacks, Nuts, Granola, Whole Grains

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

- Christine Lavin

topic: Nuts, People, Lines, Fine Lines

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

- Chuck D

topic: Crazy, Hands, Nuts

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

- Chuck Grassley

topic: Nuts, Political, United States

Wrangler butts drive me nuts.

- Cindy Gerard

source: Cindy Gerard (2009). “Show No Mercy and Take No Prisoners”, p.636, Simon and Schuster

topic: Nuts, Wranglers

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

- Cindy Sherman

topic: Nuts, Rude, Fuel, Ineptitude, Inconsiderate

It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Animal, Vegetables, Nuts, St Matthew

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

- Colin Farrell

topic: Nuts, Care, Size, Cashews

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

- Criss Jami

topic: Men, Thinking, Nuts

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

- Damien Hirst

topic: Nuts, Infinite, Possibility

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

- Dan Brown

topic: Nuts, Sane

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

- Dave Freudenthal

topic: Tired, Nuts, Focus, Nuts And Bolts, Bolts

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

- David Cunliffe

topic: Nuts, Want, Economic, Nuts And Bolts, New Zealand

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

- David Icke

source: David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

topic: Nuts, Yesterday, Today, Mighty Oaks, Stand For Something

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

- David Letterman

topic: Drinking, Thinking, Nuts, Pilots And Flying

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

- David McGee

topic: Giving Up, Nuts, Tree, Oak Tree

Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.

- David Wolfe

topic: Loss, Nuts, Chocolate, Kept Secrets, Best Kept Secrets

I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Vegetables, Nuts, Oil, Syrup, Olive Oil

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Nuts, Leader, Followers

If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Nuts, Political, Movement, Lone

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Nuts, Leader, Followers

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Nuts, Play, Ties, Hardy, Derby

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts...

- Dolly Parton

topic: Thinking, Nuts, People, Creativeness, Crazy People

I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!

- Dolph Lundgren

topic: Beer, Blood, Nuts

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

- Dominic Monaghan

topic: Night, Nuts, Two

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

- Donna Shalala

topic: Thinking, Nuts, Social, Social Programs

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

- E. L. Konigsburg

topic: Home, Nuts, Tuna, Jamie, Tuna Fish

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

- Eddie Van Halen

topic: Nuts, Want, Sometimes

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

- Eddie Van Halen

topic: Guitar, Nuts, Bridges, Friction

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

- Edwin Arnold

source: Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

topic: Spring, Nuts, Almonds, Spring Day

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

- Eli Wallach

topic: Nuts, Done, Terrible, Well Done

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

- Eliot Spitzer

topic: School, Thinking, Nuts, Nuts And Bolts, School System

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

- Eliza Dushku

topic: Lying, Years, Nuts, Jamie, True Lies

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

- Elizabeth Hurley

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Nuts, Want

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

- Elmore Leonard

source: "The Most Important Writing Tip the Late Elmore Leonard Ever Gave" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. August 20, 2013.

topic: Fun, Writing, Nuts

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

- Elton John

source: "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

topic: Optimistic, Views, Nuts

The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Fall, Nuts, Rose, Maple, October And Fall

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

- Eminem

topic: Skeletons, Nuts, Insane

I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

- Eminem

topic: Nuts, Balls, Bigs

My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High...the only problem was, my English teacher was a guy...I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.

- Eminem

topic: Teacher, Sex, Nuts, Semester, Erasers

Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

- Eminem

topic: Nuts

The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

- Emma Donoghue

topic: Drama, Kids, Nuts

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

- Emma Watson

topic: Nuts, Differences, Important

Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

- Euell Gibbons

topic: Tired, Men, Nuts

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

- Evan Esar

topic: Nuts, Car, Together

I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.

- Evangeline Lilly

topic: Thinking, Nuts, Choices, Fanfare, Red Carpet

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

- Evelyn Nesbit

topic: Future, Past, Nuts

I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.

- Ferran Adria

topic: Home, Simple, Nuts, Pine Nuts, Hazelnuts

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Tattoo, Nuts, Giving, Wise Proverbs, Proverbs Wisdom

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

- Gary Numan

topic: Believe, Nuts, Community

I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.

- Gayle King

topic: Nuts, Life Is, Feels

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

- Geoffrey Zakarian

topic: Morning, Night, Nuts, Pine Nuts, Scrambled Eggs

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

- George H. W. Bush

source: "Vice President George Bush today joked that Geraldine Ferraro's..." by Ira R. Allen, www.upi.com. August 22, 1984.

topic: Patriotic, Nuts, Political

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

- George Nethercutt

topic: Thinking, Nuts, Said

What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

- Gilda Radner

topic: Nuts, Car, Life And Death

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

- Glenn Turner

topic: Nuts, Tree, Balls, Mighty Oaks, Oak Tree

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

- Gordon Lightfoot

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nuts, World, Littles, Heartstrings

Swimming in my Daddy's big nuts

- Grand Puba

topic: Swimming, Nuts, Daddy

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

- Harry Shum, Jr.

topic: Song, Nuts, Dancer

Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Workout, Tired, Nuts, Craziest

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

- Henry Bromell

source: "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

topic: Dream, Nuts, Soul, Nuts And Bolts, Window To The Soul

Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

- Herb Kelleher

topic: Texas, Nuts, People, Southwest Airlines, Nickels

The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

- Hilda Doolittle

topic: Wine, Offering, Nuts, Quince, Pomegranates

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

- Horace

topic: Nuts, Olives

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

- Howard Stern

topic: Hard Work, Nuts, Hours

NRA - Nuts Running America.

- Huey Long

topic: Running, Government, Nuts, Nra

I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.

- Hulk Hogan

topic: Crazy, Nice, Nuts

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

- Ian Fleming

topic: America, Nuts, Together, Grunt, Laconic

With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.

- Jacoby Shaddix

topic: Kids, Average, Nuts, Crossing Over, Average Joe

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

- Jacques Audiard

topic: Moving, Nuts, Chance

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

topic: Crazy, Nuts, People, Crazy People

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

- James D. Watson

topic: Dna, Nuts, Wings, Andromeda

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.

- James Sinegal

topic: Business, Doors, Nuts, Costco

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

- James Vincent McMorrow

topic: Coffee, Nuts

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

- Jane Campion

topic: Nuts, Piano, People

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

- Jane Velez-Mitchell

topic: Vegetables, Nuts, Guilt

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

- Jane Wagner

topic: Night, Nuts, Coke

Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early." -Ranger

- Janet Evanovich

topic: Wine, Night, Nuts

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

- Jared Diamond

topic: Animal, Nuts, Kangaroos

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

- Jason Reitman

topic: Nuts, Comedy, Horror

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

- Jasper Fforde

source: Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

topic: Food, Nuts, Vegetables, Avocados, Cucumbers

John Kerry said today that he wants to get rid of tax cuts for the rich and his wife said, 'Hey, shut up! What's the matter with you?! Are you nuts?!'

- Jay Leno

topic: Cutting, Nuts, Wife

Children are different mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

- Jean Kerr

topic: Children, Nuts, Different

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

- Jennifer Garner

topic: Mom, Jobs, Nuts, Single Mindedness

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Nuts, Example, Brazil, Good Genes

Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years.

- Jerome Hines

topic: Years, Nuts

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

- Jerry Coleman

topic: Struggle, Yankees, Nuts, Second Place

Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces you not to throw money at problems. Instead, you learn all the nuts and bolts of what you're doing and become an expert.

- Jerry Greenfield

source: "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

topic: Nuts, Experts, Problem, Nuts And Bolts, Bolts

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Cutting, Talking, Nuts, Talking Down

I want to cut his nuts off.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Cutting, Nuts, Politics

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

- Jimmy Connors

topic: Smile, Sunday, Nuts

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

- Jimmy Durante

source: "Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante". Book by Gene Fowler, 1951.

topic: Hurt, Nuts, Mind, I Was Hurt

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

- Jimmy Piersall

topic: Nuts

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

- Jimmy Wales

topic: Thinking, Nuts, Potato Chips, Fours

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

- Joanne Greenberg

source: Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

topic: Nuts, Broke, Nooses

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

- Joanne Greenberg

source: Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

topic: Nuts

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

- Jody Watley

topic: Caring, Reality, Nuts, Nurturing, Nuts And Bolts

Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!

- Joe Perry

topic: Song, Sex, Nuts

For us to get to those huts and no one's home, it's going to be a kick to the nuts.

- Joe Teti

topic: Home, Nuts, Survival

Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.

- Joel Fuhrman

source: "Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

topic: Strong, Heart, Nuts, Cardiovascular, Cardiovascular Disease

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

- John Bonham

topic: School, Nuts, Determined

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

- John Candy

source: "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", www.imdb.com. November 25, 1987.

topic: Nuts, Chicago, Bucks

How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

- John Cheever

topic: Sex, Nuts, Tire, Flat Tires

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

- John Evelyn

topic: Food, Nuts, Earth, Truffles

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

- John Evelyn

topic: Nuts, Delicacy, Able, Chestnuts

Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.

- John Kapelos

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Real, Communication, Nuts

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

- John Kendrick Bangs

topic: Halloween, Nuts, Tonight, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

- John Millington Synge

topic: Nuts, Play, Apples

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

- John Thomas Sladek

topic: Nuts, Novel

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

- John Wooden

topic: Basketball, Nuts, May

I think everybody's nuts.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Thinking, Nuts

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Crazy, Nuts, Nervous, Drive Me Crazy, High Strung

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

- Jonathan Maberry

topic: Thinking, Expression, Nuts

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.......

- Joseph Heller

topic: Night, Nuts, World

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

- Joshua Slocum

source: Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.278, Applewood Books

topic: Boston, Nuts, Long

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

- Julie London

topic: Years, Nuts, Careers, New Career, New Car

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

- Julius Boros

topic: Golf, Nuts, Together, Nuts And Bolts

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

- Kamasi Washington

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Morning, Dad, Nuts

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

- Karen Black

topic: Strong Women, Strong, Nuts

When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.

- Karen Marie Moning

topic: Kissing, Nuts, Hot, Wet, Penetrate

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Mean, Nuts, Feet, Subsistence, Nuts And Bolts

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

- Kathryn Hahn

topic: Appreciation, Hair, Nuts

Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,” she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.

- Kerstin Gier

source: Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.10, Macmillan

topic: Running, Eye, Nuts, Brown Eyes

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

- Kevin Systrom

topic: Nuts, Cameras, Grew Up

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Writing, Nuts, Medicine, Nuts And Bolts, Meds

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Nuts, President, Done, Class President, Cold Turkey

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: School, Class, Nuts

The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

- Larry David

topic: Nuts, Salad, Beneficial

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

- Lawrence Block

topic: Nuts, Different, Way

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what a nut.

- Lawrence Lessig

source: "One Planet, One Net" symposium, October 10, 1998.

topic: Nuts, Citizens, World, Cusp

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

- Lee Westwood

topic: Dad, Winning, Nuts

I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

- Leonard Maltin

topic: Nuts, Lifelong

I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'

- Lewis Black

source: "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. June 10, 2006.

topic: Home, Nuts, Two, Two Of Us

I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.

- Lindsey Vonn

topic: Workout, Snacks, Nuts

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.

- Lionel Tiger

topic: Vegetables, Years, Nuts, Eating Meat, Balanced Diet

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

- Loretta Lynn

source: "What I've Learned: Loretta Lynn" By Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Nuts

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

- Lori Greiner

source: "Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2012.

topic: Running, Thinking, Nuts, Running A Business

I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.

- Lubos Motl

source: "Schellnhuber: West has exceeded quotas". motls.blogspot.ru. September 06, 2009.

topic: Media, Talking, Nuts

Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

- Ludacris

source: Song: We Got-Feat Chingy I-20 Tity Boi

topic: Philosophy, Nuts, World

The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?

- Luis de Camoes

topic: Vegetables, Nuts, Tree, Porcupines, Absorbing

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Nuts, Presidential, Littles

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

- Manil Suri

topic: Thinking, Gun, Nuts

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

- Marat Safin

topic: Dream, Nuts, Tennis

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Nuts, Ideas, Firsts

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

- Marco Polo

source: Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (2007). “The Customs of the Kingdoms of India”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Men, Nuts, Meat

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

- Marcus Brigstocke

topic: Nuts, Allergies, Exposure

Hello?" A girl again. "I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him." "That's usually what we do," said the other feminine voice.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Girl, Sorry, Nuts

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

- Martha Beck

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Nuts

I—I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I—I—" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! "I love you." "Of course you do," he said, totally unsurprised. "WHAT? I finally tell you my deepest, most personal feelings and you're all, 'Yeah, I already got that memo'? This, this is why you drive me nuts! This is why it's so hard to tell you things! I take it back.

- MaryJanice Davidson

topic: Love You, Nuts, Feelings

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

- Matt Groening

topic: Nuts, Giving, People, Toothless

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

- Matthew Ashford

topic: Nuts, Theatre, Nuts And Bolts

Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

- Max Barry

topic: Hands, Nuts, Mind, Cheeseburger

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

- Mehmet Oz

topic: Nuts, Long, Hungry

It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the world has gone nuts, I think. And this film speaks -- well, Christ spoke of faith, hope, love and forgiveness. And these are things I think we need to be reminded of again. He forgave as he was tortured and killed. And we could do with a little of that behavior.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Thinking, Nuts, Needs, Faith Hope Love, Hope Love

Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.

- Michael Grant

topic: Nuts, Talking, Paranoia, Talking To Yourself

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

- Michael K. Williams

topic: Nuts, Want, Honey

A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.

- Michelle Forbes

topic: Nuts, Hydration, Water, Plant Based Diet